By the Book

Hearts and Hooves Day: A magical day in Equestria when Ponies all over get together and share a romantic day with their very-special-somepony. Some ponies had been making plans for weeks for a special reservation at an exclusive restaurant, or even booking hotel resort packages months in advance.

Shining Armor didn’t have any such concerns. He had been dating Princess Mi Amore Cadenza in secret for some time now. As a celebrity, she had preferred to keep their relationship quiet, lest the paparazzi hound the poor Captain as well. But it also meant him keeping it a secret from everypony he knew as well, including his family. As far as they knew, he was still an eligible bachelor.

He both liked, and disliked the arrangement. While he didn’t mind being the Princess’s ‘booty call’ for lack of a better description, he had wanted for some time now to make some grand, romantic gesture. He and Cadence both loved each other truly. He just wanted to climb to the highest room of the tallest tower, step out onto the balcony, and shout it to the whole city. Instead, he waited at the kitchen table of his foalhood home.

He had awakened that morning feeling somewhat tired. He’d had a myriad of erotic dreams that night. Not all of them had involved Cadence. If the Princess of the Night had a hoof in tampering with his dreams, he was going to give her a piece of his mind when he saw her next. That would be an awkward conversation for both of them since Luna herself was one of the many mares to make an appearance in his sexual dreams.

But that wasn’t what had him nervous as he sat at the kitchen table. He kept his head down, seemingly fascinated by the swirling of his Wheaties in his bowl in front of him. He felt embarrassed and ashamed. The mare that occupied the bulk of his nocturnal fantasies was sitting across from him. He avoided her eye contact, as though afraid that she would be able to tell what it was he had dreamed about her by looking in his eyes.

On the other side of the table, the other pony noticed little of his behavior that morning. She was engrossed with the new book she’d just gotten. ‘New’ would be a bit of a misnomer. It was actually quite an old book. Ancient even! But she had only gotten her hooves on it the previous day, so it was new to her. It was a book on Equestrian history. Equestrian history had always intrigued her ever since she was a filly. This one in particular talked about the historical origins of Hearts and Hooves day. It proved to be quite a page turner with love potions, love poisons, royalty, dragons, kingdoms, and chaos!

Twilight ate quickly, levitating the spoon from the bowl to her mouth and back again in a regular rhythm. What had once been a struggle for the unicorn foal years ago came to her now as naturally as walking or breathing. She simultaneously turned a page, levitated her spoon, and a knife, applying some jam to a slice of toast. Her horn glowed idly without her giving so much as a sign of effort. Magic came so naturally to her.

He had watched his little sister grow up into the beautiful young mare that sat across from him. She had such wonderfully developed features. Her lovely mane, her silky fur, her voluminous tail sprouting from her supple-

NO! Shining mentally scolded himself. He wasn’t supposed to think of her like that! Brothers don’t think about their sisters that way. Everything just felt so wrong. Things had just been so strange with them lately, especially after everything that had happened earlier that morning…

Dawn streaked through the dull glass of his window. It diffused the harsh morning sun with its translucent texture. Shining Armor roused without alarm from the best sleep he'd had in some time. He couldn’t place the source, but something just felt... good, as though he'd just awoken to the aroma his favorite breakfast. Twilight trotted by, poking her head in to see if he'd awakened yet.

“Breakfast is almost ready.”

"I'll be downstairs in a minute." He answered. She trotted off as he orientated himself and combed his mane. His leg bumped into something just under the edge of his bed. He pulled out a saddle bag bearing Princess Luna's cutie mark.

Ever since her return from Nightmare Moon, the Night Princess harbored a bit of an unhealthy infatuation for the Captain. He could only imagine what his favorite stalker would have left for him last night. He was somewhat unnerved at the idea of her sneaking into his room at night and him not knowing about it. He paused for a moment.

There was something- something just at the edge of his mind that vexed him. It was on the tip of his tongue, some vital clue that was eluding him. But the harder he tried to remember what it was, the more elusive it became. "How did she even get in here?" He wondered. The window in his room was not one that normally opened. He looked to it again. The glass wasn't frosted over with ice. It was the glass itself that was cloudy. "This is probably her doing." He sighed. "Well, let's see what she left me."

He opened the bag. Inside were two items, two books to be exact. No, wait, three items. A tiny slip of paper tumbled out, drifting to the floor. He picked it up. It was a crumpled raffle ticket from yesterday. It had his name on it. But it definitely wasn't his hoofwriting. "It must have just been a note to herself for whom these books were for." He reasoned.

As for the books themselves, one was really old, and the other was positively ancient. The old one was a history book regaling the origins of the Hearts and Hooves Day holiday. The other, ancient one was nearly indecipherable in an exotic pre-classical dialect. But the illustrations told him it was some kind of a PonySutra. It was bound in what felt suspiciously like leather. He felt uneasy handling it. Shining stuffed the books back in the bag and laid back down. Just five more minutes, that was all he needed.

“Come on, Shiny!” Twilight said from his bedroom doorway. Shining Armor had only just barely roused from his sleep. As soon as she saw him stir, she bounded into the room. Shining barely had time to react as she leaped up onto the foot of his bed excitedly. He grabbed his duvet tightly in his hooves, keeping himself covered.  His pulling on one end and her sitting on the other pulled the blanket taught.

Shining’s panic stemmed from his awakening in a particular condition. Especially after the nature of the dreams he’d been having last night. He quickly adjusted himself to keep from pitching a tent of the comforter.

“Come on sleepy head, time to get up!” She said, pulling at his blanket. She was simply trying to kick him out off of his comfy mattress. His death grip on the covers was all that kept his morning wood from being exposed to his sister.

Jeez Twi, give me a sec would ya?” He said, relaxing as she released her tension on the blanket. He bunched up the blanket over his lap to hide any phallic protrusion. He yawned as he patiently waited for her to just go away and let him get up on his own time. But she just sat there grinning like an idiot. “What?”

"Shining, are you feeling well? Did you sleep okay?" She asked.

"Yeah, I slept well, really well actually." Shining said, still thinking about the books under the bed. "Actually, hang on a second." He said, reaching under the bed for the one that wasn't covered in cow skin. "I’ve got something for you." He said revealing the book. He figured she'd get more out of reading about the history of Hearts and Hooves Day than he would, or reading about anything for that matter.

"You got me a Hearts and Hooves day gift?!" She squealed, hopping on the bed beside him, looking at the book. "I didn't even get anything for you." She said, pouting. "I guess you can be my very-special-somepony for today." She said, leaning in to kiss him on the cheek. He turned at the last second to try to explain that he already had a very special somepony.

Before he had time to react, their lips collided.

Worlds collided.

Time stood still.

Her soft lips met his for the briefest, fraction of a moment, before they both realized their error and recoiled away from each other. But for an instant, it felt like an eternity when they kissed.

"He he..."

"Uh..."

"Yeah..."

"Sorry, I-"

"No it was my fault-"

"Hah ha ha!"

"Ha hah Ha ha!"

They both broke down in laughing hysterics at the situation.

"Oh my gosh, it's like we're foals again!" Twilight laughed.

"I know, it's so silly!" Shining agreed, tearing up from laughing so much. He wiped his cheek.

"I mean, it's not like it's a big deal or anything!" She added.

"Totally not a big deal." Shining agreed again.

"We could kiss all day and it wouldn't change anything." She said.

"Exactly."

"Watch." She leaned in and kissed him right on the lips again. This time with intention, and a bit more finesse than the accidental collision earlier. Shining was still a bit shocked at her sudden forwardness. But he couldn't let on that it was affecting him. He just closed his eyes and kissed her back. It was still just a quick kiss by any measure, but still, it was heavenly.

"See? No big deal." She said. Shining could barely hear her over his pulse pounding in his ears. He could see that she was breathing heavier, despite her best efforts to hide it, and her eyes had dilated to nearly twice their normal size.

"Yeah... no big deal. I'd kiss mom like that." Shining said, still trying to play it cool. "Even if it was a real kiss."

"A real kiss?!" Twilight took that as a challenge. She leaned in again, kissing him. Shining felt her hot breath from her nose on his cheek as she adjusted her neck, parting her lips ever so slightly, but thankfully, sparing the tongue. Or was it regrettably? Her breath was ragged and uneven. His own hooves were shaky, trying in vain to hold himself steady. She held herself there for several seconds, likely trying to prove her point. After what felt like an all too brief encounter, she slowly pulled away with a smooching 'pop'. "There. See?" She breathed. Her voice had grown low and husky. Her eyelids sank a degree, making her look intoxicated.

Shining tried his best to keep his own bearing. The room felt hot as an oven. That was why he was sweating. Because the room was hot. Yeah, that was it.

"So. Breakfast?" Shining said after a long pause. Twilight's eyes fluttered, as if she had been half-asleep.

"Yes! That's right!" Twilight hopped off the bed with her new-found energetic sobriety, bobbing her tail as she crossed the room. Shining stole a glance at her fine behind beneath her tail as it swayed to the left and right. "You're going to love eating what I've got downstairs!" She said as she vanished around the corner.

"Truer words were never spoken." He whispered to himself.

Back at breakfast, oblivious to Shining’s inner turmoil over the surreal events from earlier, Twilight quickly finished reading the first chapter in one sitting, her breakfast long gone.

She had an early start for the day and a date to keep with the train station. The train ride back to Ponyville went by quickly for the studious mare, who was completely enthralled in the book her brother had given her.

Twilight was heading back through Ponyville, in the midst of her second read through. Not looking where she was going she bumped into the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

"Oh my goodness, I didn't even see you there. I'm so, so sorry!" Twilight apologized.

"Oh, that's okay Twilight. It was an accident." Applebloom said from the pile of fillies.

"I've just been reading the most fascinating book about Hearts and Hooves Day. Did you know that this holiday got its start because of a love potion?" Twilight explained, retrieving her book and heading on her way. The trio of fillies dove in front of her, stopping her in her tracks.

"Did you say a love potion?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"That's right! It even has the recipe." Twilight answered, opening the book to the page and showing them.

"I don't suppose we could borrow that book for a little while, do ya?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Of course you can." Twilight said, passing the book to the ivory filly. Twilight reached into her bag, grabbing the book of the Elements of Harmony. "I have another book here that I think you'll-" Twilight looked back to the trio, but the girls had already vanished, heading off to pony-knows-where on another one of their adventures, she imagined.

She just couldn't understand a pony who would turn down the opportunity to read a new book, especially one as good as the Elements of Harmony. Never the less, she had a library that she needed to open, and headed on her way.

Meanwhile, back in Canterlot, Shining finished clearing the table and started doing the dishes when he heard a knock at the door. Shining Armor finished what he was doing at the sink with the last of the breakfast dishes and answered the door.

"Good Morning." Cadence whispered. She was wearing a long, simple dress that covered her entire body, hiding her cutie mark, wings, and all but her tail. She had a broad sun hat covering her mane, and large sunglasses. It wasn't like her to show up incognito like this. Especially when she could just teleport about the city, completely baffling the Canterlot paparazzi. "Is your family here?" She asked quietly.

"No, my folks are out for the day, and Twilie went back to Ponyville this morning. Why are you dressed like that? Who are you even hiding from?" He asked, looking around outside to see if anypony was following her.

"Hmm? Oh, yes. Well, I had to be discrete when I went out last night to get your Hearts and Hooves Day gift." She said, producing a bag with an image of a bushel of wheat on it. Shining recognized it as being from 'The Crop: Canterlot's best kept secret’. An adult activity paraphernalia boutique. He looked inside the bag.

"It's empty." He said. Unsure of what it was she could have gotten for him at that store. She just stood there, smiling at him with a devilish grin from under her hat. "What?" He asked her, getting a little confused at whatever game it was she was playing.

"I had it... gift wrapped." She said, her voice dropping an octave into a seductive purr. She motioned to her dress, sashaying it to and fro on his porch. "Why don't we head upstairs so you can… unwrap your present?" She said, stepping inside, flicking his nose lightly with her tail as she passed.

Her aroma, once light, and diffused outside, was rich and musky now, soaking in her tail, and flooding his senses as she passed it by his nose. It was instant hypnosis as he turned to follow her upstairs. The dress, simple as it was, was none the less effective at concealing her form beneath. Sure, he had seen her nude plenty of times, but somehow it was the act of disrobing that he just found so arousing.

Without a direct view of her sex, he was able to take in more appreciation for the other subtleties. The delightful bounce in her step, and the way it sent tiny ripples up her tone thighs to her shapely flanks. The seductive stare she gave him, glancing back over her shoulder, watching him follow. Her eyes, oh how he loved her eyes! That deep magenta color that just pulled him in, he could lose himself there for hours.

Cadence knew that Shining would follow her through the very gates of Tartarus. His excitement was now visibly evident beneath him. He followed that thing around like a divining rod, and right now, it was locked onto her trail. Inside his bedroom, Cadence turned around, facing him. He tried to follow around her hind end, but she gently put a hoof to his chest, instructing him to halt.

"Hop up on the bed." She instructed. He stood there for a moment, pouting. His hoof reached past her, pawing in vain to pull at her dress. She loved when 'all the blood ran from one horn to another' with him. He'd never think to just use his magic to just lift her dress. Not in this state. He usually didn't have the capacity to think with both at the same time. She smirked. "Go on." She insisted, shoeing him away. As the taller of the pair, she had a somewhat longer reach, preventing him from gaining any purchase on her fabric. He relented his attempts, and resigned to do as he was told. The obedient soldier in him took over his actions.

He settled onto the mattress as Cadence started to slowly dance in a very unladylike way. She gyrated her hips and back, moaning suggestively as she elevated her butt into the air and waving it back and forth at him. He took it as a sign to go get her. She put a hoof up.

"Uh uh uh! Not yet. You sit your butt back down." She scolded. Shining slumped back onto the bed, rubbing himself against the duvet. If she made him wait much longer he was going to fuck a hole right into the mattress. Cadence slipped a hoof under her dress. "Mmm. Oooh, ohh yeah." She moaned as she obviously played with herself, hidden from his sight. Shining was in agony, tearing his hooves at the bed post. She lifted her hoof out from under her dress, bringing it to her snout. Her white stocking was positively soaked in her juices. She stared at him as she quickly gave it a tiny lick.

"Grrr." Shining Armor felt like a caged animal, trapped on the bed, begging for release. She strutted over to him at the edge of the bed, bringing her hoof to his face, he craned his neck to lick her wet hoof, but she pulled it away at the last moment, leaving him wanting with only her strong scent. "Gah!" He was nearly giving himself a rug burn from humping the blankets. She ran her hoof down the front of her dress, over the ornate buttons adorning the front of it.

"You want this?" She asked, motioning to herself.

"Yes!"

"Tell me that you want it." She teased.

"I want it!" He said louder.

"Well then... open your present." She said. He stood up to strip the dress off her.

"Uh uh!" She said. "Do it from over there. And do it gently. Slowly!" She wanted this moment to last. And she didn't want her dress torn after all. Shining settled down, trying to focus. It was always a struggle for him to concentrate on his magic in this state. Slowly, his horn glowed, along with the top button of her dress. He carefully manipulated the fabric as so not to damage it. What was normally a simple task was excruciatingly difficult for him right now, and she knew it. She had put a lot of effort into making this day perfect, and he was going to have to earn it. One by one, he undid each button, arriving at the last one. The front of the dress parted, revealing a lilac ribbons at the tops of her stockings.

"You want this?" She asked him again.

"I WANT IT!" He cried out.

FOMP

Cadence's wings burst open, throwing the dress from her body. Beneath, she was clad in a skimpy lingerie. A matching lilac corset with white frill, and white panties base.

She looked stunning. Shining was stunned. All his focus on trying to undo the buttons had left him somewhat limp. But now, she resumed her dance, humming as she went. He recognized the melody.

clap your hooves and do a little shake

She wiggled her rump at him. He remembered now. It was the song she used to sing when she was foalsitting Twilie.

Twilie

He was hard again. Fully hard. Painfully so. He was confident he could hammer nails with his steel rod at that moment. But there was quite something else he was ready to nail. Or rather, somepony. She reared up, putting her hooves up on the edge of the bed, ready to pounce him. Her panties shifted aside slightly.

THUD

Shining heard something fall to the floor. The both looked behind her. An oblong, white object that had up to that point been concealed, has slipped from its wet hiding place. It whirred away on the floor. Bzzzzzzzzz.

"Has that been in you this whole time?" He asked, astonished.

"Hmmm, just a little something I got for myself while I was there." She said, turning off the vibrator. "Getting me warmed up for you baby." She said climbing onto the bed, pushing him onto his back. "Here. You can have this for now." She said, levitating the vibrator over to him. He grasped it in his hooves. It was drenched, infused with her essence. Her scent was divine. He didn't hesitate to fellate the phallic object like a Popsicle, if only to get more of her flavor.

She slid up his body. The soft fabric of her lingerie and stockings brushed against his sensitive groin. She took his member in her hooves, massaging it gently. She gave Little Shiny small kisses, starting at the base, slowly working his way up his shaft to the head. The entire time, she softly massaged his heavy balls in her free hoof. He looked on in anticipation as she flicked her tongue across his medial ridge. He always loved it when she did that. She brought her mouth to his tip, pausing an agonizing moment before she started.

"Sooo, what did you get for me?" She asked, speaking into the microphone.

"What?" He tried to regain his senses one his eyes stopped rolling back from her ministrations.

"You heard me. I got this really nice outfit for you. Did you at least get me some flowers to snack on after?" She asked with pouty eyes.

Dammit! He completely forgot to stop at the florist's last night!

"Oh- yeah! Of course! I got you a... it's a..." Shining's hoof flailed around along the bottom of the bed, reaching underneath. "A book!"

"A book!?" She asked, cocking her eyebrow, her voice falling flat. Shining grabbed the book, handing it to her. She looked over it skeptically, opening it to the first couple of pages. It was definitely old. Her disappointed expression gave way to intrigue, then surprise, and then a deep blush!

"Oh my gosh! This is a First Edition!" She exclaimed. "You found me a First Edition PonySutra! How?" She was ecstatic.

"Wait? You mean you can read it?" He asked.

"Pre-Classical Equestrian? Of course! Can't you?" She said, looking at him as though it was a silly question. He just shook his head. "Hmm, the benefits of a classical education I suppose." She sighed, flipping through the pages, idly stroking his cock as she read. She looked up at the clock. "How long do we have the place to ourselves?" She asked.

"My folks won't be back until later tonight." He said, wishing she'd get back to the task, literally, at hoof. She flipped through several more pages before setting it on his bureau, opened to page one.

"Oh, we are doing ALL of these!" She said. Shining sucked in a quick breath, eyeing the thick book beside the bed. He was silently grateful that Twilight had made him a hearty breakfast that morning. He had the feeling it was going to be a long Hearts and Hooves Day.

She was so enthralled in the book that she had all but nearly forgotten about what she was doing. Her hoof, once stroking his member a minute ago, now only lay idly upon it. Her attention was all on the book, Shining’s however, was attention was more focused on his pressing urges. His hooves pawed at her to continue her work on Little Shiny.

“Uh, uh ah!” She scolded, shooing him away. “Look.” She said, showing him the book, opened to the first chapter. “It’s ‘The Art of the Kiss’.” She read to him. A whole chapter just on kissing. She couldn’t be serious. They had kissed more times than he could count. None of them were ever lacking by his estimation.

“Oh come on.” Shining pleaded. “We’ve kissed tons of times, I think we know how to do it.” He said. Cadence was only half listening as she reviewed the next several pages.

“Not like this we haven’t.” She said. Her eyes grew wider as she read all about the different ways there were. “Wow! There are techniques in here that I’ve never even heard of!”

“What’s so damn complicated about it? Come here.” He mocked, pursing his lips into an exaggerated duck-face.

“Eww, knock that off! You’re not a cod-fish!” She swatted him away.

“Fine,” Shining resigned, “what does the book say to do then?” He asked. She took hold of one of her stockings in her mouth and slipped it slowly from her arm.

“Here,” she instructed, “kiss my hoof.” Shining grabbed her hoof and gave it a quick peck.

“There. Next?” He said, starting to get a bit frustrated. She glared at him. “What? I thought we were going to do some PonySutra stuff. Not all this mushy romance fancy pansy junk. When are we gonna get to the kinky stuff?”

“Shining, the PonySutra, the original PonySutra, was about every aspect of love making. Not just different positions for intercourse.” She explained in a lecturing tone. “It’s about every sense, every touch, every part of love. Do you remember when we first met?” She asked. He nodded. “Take my hoof, and try to remember the magic of that first meeting, all your excitement, your anxiety. Take my hoof, and greet it with the kiss of a gentlecolt of yore, meeting the fair Princess for the first time.” She extended her hoof to him again slowly.

Shining looked at her hoof, and then back to her again. She was still wearing that skimpy lingerie. She could see the distraction in his eyes, throwing her dress over herself again. He stifled a groan of disappointment. He did try to remember that first meeting. He remembered how nervous he was when he first met her. Now he didn’t feel that trepidation. He was completely at ease in her presence. His past self would have envied him. What he wouldn’t have given to have the smooth confidence he now possessed.

He took her hoof in his, holding it gently, yet firmly. She held herself with perfect poise, practiced with years of Princesshood. He brought her hoof to his lips, pausing for just a moment before making contact. She shuddered at the sensation, focusing on the feeling of his warm breath escaping his nostrils against the fine pink fur of her trimmed fetlocks. He brushed against her, his lips grazing her fine hair, before pressing forth against her skin, kissing her hoof gently, all the while, never breaking eye contact with the lovely mare.

“There.” She said, impressed. “That was much better. That was, very good.” She smiled. “Now then, moving on…” She passed the book to him, illustrating the next few steps. Once he was sufficiently briefed, she put the book aside, extending her hoof to him once more.

Once again, he took her hoof in his. He applied what he had learned from the previous lesson. He started slow, sensually, kissing her hoof. It was the start of his trail of kisses to her wrist. Cadence began to blush as he worked his way up her arm to her elbow. She jerked away for a moment. He knew she was very ticklish on her elbows. She relaxed once more and he moved on.

He worked his way up her upper arm. He worked in a spiral motion from the front to the back, to the meeting of her shoulder to her back. He nipped and nibbled on the soft skin of her shoulder, pressing her onto the bed, tracing along the edge of her shoulder blade to the base of her wings, planting little kisses around where they met her back. His attention caused her wings to flare outstretched as she moaned beneath him.

He knew that a Pegasus’s wings were very sensitive, and could be an erogenous zone in the bedroom. But the time for wing play would come later. He moved away from her wings to the base of her neck, starting at the bottom of her mane, nibbling along her hairline up her neck, nuzzling his nose into her fragrant hair. What had started as a journey from the tip of her hoof, he arrived at his final destination. He kissed the corner of her ear, using his lips and tongue to toy the enervated membrane, teasing and playing with her fine fur lining along the ridge.

Shining himself was getting excited from the act. It had been some time since they had made intentional strides to be actively intimate.  Sure, they hugged and kissed and rutted. There was no shortage of physical affection. But their accustomedness to each other had taken the romantic magic for granted. They were both enjoying a return to the simple romantic roots.

Cadence could feel Shining’s breath hasten in her ear as he continued to kneed and massage her body with his free hooves. She felt his roaming hooves wander ambitiously south, hoping to gain some purchase on her hot promised land. As much as she enjoyed the attention she was receiving, she had to halt his wayward advance. After all, she intended to do things by the book.

He let out a whimper very unbecoming of a royal guard as she gently pushed him away. She smiled at him warmly, trying to be as kind about withholding him as possible. She rolled away from him onto her back, passing the book to him again to read. He looked up from the next couple of pages. She was reclined, with one leg crossed over the knee of the other, bobbing her hoof at him suggestively, beckoning him to come hither and proceed.

Shining crawled across the bed to the base of her hooves. She brought her raised hoof down to bop him playfully on his nose. He took hold of her stocking in his teeth and began to pull it from her leg. He pulled slowly, even more slowly than she had done her own earlier. She almost couldn’t bear each slow moment that he tugged on her white stocking. Shining watched as each individual hair of her fur fluffed and bristled as it came free of the silken sock.

His plan had worked. As the last few inches of sock slipped free from her hoof, he could tell even she was anxious for him to proceed. He tossed the article aside, slinking forward to the tip of the hoof as it fell aside as she parted her legs. Her satin white panties, soaked as they were, kept the scene from being too obscene. Mostly.

As before, he stated with her hoof, kissing it slowly, and gently. He gradually snaked a trail of kisses up along her shin, around back to her tones calve muscles, and then up and across her knee. He stopped for a moment, with his head resting against the inside of her leg. The second half would be even better for both of them he was sure. His eyes followed up the curves of her body to her wanton eyes. They were wide with desire for him to continue. Her hooves clutched the blanket and pillow.

He continued past her knee, planting little kisses zig-zagging a path up her inner thigh. Cadence’s eyes closed as she let slip a soft moan. He arrived finally at the frilly edge of her thong. He arousal soaking through, making him heady with her aroma. He carefully worked a tiny bit of the fabric into his mouth, trying to surreptitiously pull the material away from his prize. He felt her hoof grab ahold of his mane, as though to pull him into her all the more.

“Uh ah!” She admonished, pulling his head away from her crotch. He still held her panties in his mouth, stretching them. From out of the corner of his eye he could make out the edges of her hot marehood, mere inches from his face. “Shiny, drop it!” She commanded of him as though her were a bad, bad puppy. He responded in turn with sad puppy dog eyes. “Drooop it!” She repeated, even more into the role of the puppy’s master. He finally let go, her nethers vanishing again once more.

She shimmied away from under him to the opposite side of the bed. She started to run her hooves up and down her body seductively, across her chest and down in between her legs, along her thighs and back to her crotch again, teasing the poor stallion to no end. She played with her mane in one hoof while rubbing herself through her panties with the other.

“You want to see my pretty little pussy? She asked. He just nodded, speechless. “Tell me.” She commanded.

“Yes!”

“Yes what?” she teased.

“Yes! I want it!”

“Want what?” She continued mercilessly. “I want to hear the words.”

“I want to see your pussy!” He said. When she had said it, it had sounded so sexy, so alluring. In his baritone blurt, it just came out as sounding crude, vulgar even. He might otherwise have felt dirty for it if it were not for his overwhelming desire blocking out any other cognitive process. Cadence for her part thought it was cute as hell, seeing him beg like that.

“You first.” She said in a playful tone, motioning him to expose himself to her. His scooting toward her had him on his belly, obscuring any view of Little Shiny for her, much to her temporary disappointment. But that would end now. He obediently sat upright and rolled onto his backside, his erection standing proudly before her. “Ah, that’s better. Now stroke it for me. Show me how much you want me.” She ordered. She loved this dominant role she was playing today.

Shining did as he was told and happily began to stroke himself for her, his eyes fixated on her hoof, already massaging herself methodically through her panties. Shining’s hoof moved on autopilot stroking himself in an ever-increasing pace. Cadence slipped her hoof beneath the hem of the panties, forcing Shining to wait just a bit longer as he watched her continue to work herself under the fabric. He watched her hoof’s bulge in her panties, making short little jerky strokes of her clitoris, and then switch back to long stokes of her slit.

She slipped her other hoof just under the band, lifting her hips to slip the bottoms down her legs. Shining was nearly chewing his lip when she finally came into full view for him. She pulled one leg free, splaying herself wide, leaving the panties looped on her other hoof. A bead of precum formed at the tip of his member as she kicked her panties off, scoring a ringer as the looped around his horn, dangling the soaked material over his face and snout. The sudden rush of her scent and the naughty eroticism of her panties on his face threw his hoof into a blur. Cadence felt herself getting close, quickening her own pace to match his.

She mashed her hoof into her swollen clit a few last quick times before her back involuntarily arched, bucking her hips off the mattress. She cried out as her legs spasmed to either side of the clopping stallion with a front row seat to the orgasmic mare. Her pussy lips pursed and winked her clit at him as she gushed a small spray of her mare cum at him, wetting the fur of his chest and further lubricating the hoof on his cock.

The display of Cadence amidst a rocking orgasm was the final stroke for him. Shining felt his whole body lurched forward, launching his semen at the ecstatic mare quivering in front of him, marring her pretty pink coat with streaks of his sticky white. She may not have been able to see it, but she sure felt it as his hot strands landed across her fur. For as warm as her pussy was, his seed felt positively molten on her fur. She reveled in the sensation in bathing in her lover’s essence.

After a few moments, Shining opened his eyes. He had laid back onto the pillow after he finished, and nearly nodded off. Cadence looked no worse for wear. She had already cleaned her fur of… him. And she was now just casually brushing out her mane as she read ahead in the book. He rolled onto his side as he watched her. Little Shiny, for his part, had already retreated back into his sheath.

“Mmm, baby. That was amazing.” Shining cooed. She looked up from the book at him.

“Huh? Oh well we’re just getting started.” She told him.

“Oh yeah? He asked, arching an eyebrow.

“Mm hmm.” She confirmed. “Why don’t you go ahead and pick up where you left off with my wings?” she suggested. Shining was more than happy to oblige. His pride might have been temporarily expended, but his mouth and hooves were more than ready, willing, and able. She rolled onto her belly, stretching out onto his bed. She flexed and stretched her legs and arched her back in a sexy pose. She flared her wings out for him. He crawled up behind her, putting his hooves on either side of her supple flanks. He gave them a generous squeeze, eliciting a moan from the Princess.

She looked back at him over her shoulder, watching him practically worship her butt. Pulling on her fine behind, he ran his nose up under her tail, up through her finely combed hair. It was quickly becoming a mess from their carnal activities. By an incredible stroke of self-control, he moved past her nethers and worked his way up her back, starting from the base of her spine.

He nibbled and kissed over each individual vertebra, sending little shocks of pleasure up her back from his oral massage. His hooves actively worked her sides, rubbing and tickling her ribs as he progressed up her body. He felt the tremors in her muscles as she quivered underneath him. A suppressed giggle escaped her.

“What?” He asked.

“No, it’s just that you’re tickling me!” She said.

“Hmm, like this?” He asked, nibbling along the ridge of her back.

“Oh. Oh yes. That is the spot. You have found it.” She feigned.

“Oh, well, how about THIS!?” He asked louder, assailing her ribs with his hooves more aggressively.

“AHH! AH he ha ha hahahaha NO! Ahehehahaha I can’t- ha ha ha I can’t breathe! Stop!” She laughed into a panic, Shining only stopping when she started to turn blue.

“That’s for teasing me earlier.” He said with a smug grin. Cadence was still trying to recover under him, panting and wheezing. “Now catch your breath so that I can take it away in an entirely different manner.” He said. Hidden from his view, she rolled her eyes at the corniness of the statement. He could be such a goof sometimes. The thought was dispelled the moment he began to make good on his promise. After his little journey staring from her tail, he had made it back to the base of her wings.

It is no secret that a Pegasus’s wings are incredibly sensitive. They need to be for it to be possible for flight. The subtle changes in the air density, humidity, and wind direction are all factors in aeronautics. The finely tuned nerve endings for each feather are instinctually programmed to interpret each factor in flight. Winged ponies have a slightly proportionately larger cerebellum part of their brain, just to process all the extra information. And they have an enhanced inner ear system for balance, and more developed lungs for more efficient respiration exchange at altitude.

Shining just barely recalled some of those facts from biology class years ago. But what he was more interested in was the slightly less pervasive fact that their extra sensitivity made them a particularly specialized erogenous zone. It was this that he wanted to capitalize on at the moment, as he delicately simulated preening her.

In their time together as an item, Cadence had instilled on him an improved sense of patience in the erotic arena. Their first foray into couples preening was quite a learning experience. He was younger, more brash and excitable. He was eager to learn from his older marefriend. But perhaps he was a bit too aggressive, too eager to please.

After explaining the process of nipping out old, worn feathers for new healthy ones to grow in, he gave it a try on her. After painfully pulling out a couple perfectly good feathers, she went on to explain that it required but the simplest tug. “Grasp one with your lips and tug gently”. She said. “If it comes loose, it’s a bad feather; otherwise it’s a good feather.”

With this new wisdom imparted on him, he tried again, giving each individual feather a gentle tug. Most stayed put. A few came free with ease. He worked out a pattern along her leading edge, moving on to her primaries and then secondary feathers. He’d never taken the time to count how many feathers she had before. But there were quite a lot. He took a quick break after he finished the first wing.

His jaw was tired from all the working out with it, as though he’d had a wad of gum three sizes too big. That was when he noticed it. He had been so focused on his task before, but now that he had a moment, it was incredibly obvious. Her eyes were half lidded, her pulse racing, her breath ragged. He noticed the familiar aroma accompanying it. Cadence was aroused!

“Cadie?” He asked, somewhat concerned with the new development.

“Mmm. That’s the other thing.” She said in a low tone. “Preening… is a very private act. It is a pleasurable sensation, designed to encourage wing health. And it is only ever shared with… lovers.” She said, seductively, looking at him with wanton eyes. Her musk had already kick-started his heart. Now her sexy tone had him fully revved. He started to climb on top of her to mount her.

“Ah ah!” She shooed him off. “After! You have another wing to do first, mister!”

“I thought you’d already preened this week.” Shining said.

“Uhn, ah. I put it off for us to do together today. It just happened to be in the book too.” She said, giving him a wink. “Now put that mouth of yours back to work on something other than chit-chat.” He gave her shoulder a nip. “Ow!”

“Shh.” He hushed her. Now it was his turn to be the dominant one. Cadence didn’t mind too much as he resumed his work on her feathers. With practiced care, he moved along each row of feathers, gently testing each one. She was putty in his hooves under him. He’d gotten quite good at this. She now preferred him to do it over her doing it herself. She told him last week that she had done it herself as misdirection, and in preparation for Hearts and Hooves Day.

In the meantime, her wings had grown quite itchy. It is that first itch for a young Pegasus foal that drives them to learn how to preen on their own, almost by instinct. A mother might occasionally have to tell them the finer points, or sometimes show by example. But a mother never preens a foal for them. It was just taboo.

Shining scratched her itch in just the right way and she loved it. She was at complete ease as he set to work on her. There was no secret in the act for the couple. She made no effort to conceal her enjoyment of the servicing she was receiving. She shifted her hips, rubbing her thighs together reflexively. While Shining’s arousal and orgasm came and went like a bottle rocket, Cadence, for her part, was enjoying a steady plateau of heightened pleasure.

Shining could plainly tell the effect he was having on the lovely mare. Her moans of lust tag teamed with her heady aroma, serving to spur him on as Little Shiny made his second appearance for the day. It was like a heat-seeking missile, bobbing in time with his pounding heartbeat. Almost autonomously it prodded beneath her tail, searching for her wet entrance. He missed the first couple of times, deflecting downwards, grazing against her clit. Cadence, once lost in the sensations of being preened, was brought crashing back to the present moment as she felt the bolts of electricity shoot through her from the sudden contact on her little nub.

“Ooh, you behave!” She scolded playfully. She got up and pushed him onto his backside. She sat sideways across his lap, her hot plot on his leg, and his member pinned between his belly and her thigh. She presented her other wing to him. “Come on. Finish what you started and I’ll give you a treat.” She said. He couldn’t tell from her tone if she was just being playful or actually mocking him. In either case, his brief feeling of being the dominant one passed quickly.

He set back to work, finishing preening her other wing. He couldn’t work any faster without being less thorough. And if he did that, she would surely be able to tell. He was curious though, what her idea for his ‘treat’ was. As he went, he slowly slipped a hoof under her tail. He certainly had a bit more dexterity with that than his dick. He set to work massaging her soft mound, rubbing and kneading gently, without doing anything too major to attract too much attention. He deliberately avoided the one spot that would set her off as he worked the soft edge of his hoof up and down her slit, soaking his hoof in her juices. She seemed content to let him get away with that at least. He finished working on her wings and brought his hoof to his nose, giving it a lick.

“Ooh, you little sneak!” She said watching him enjoying her flavor on his hoof. “You can never get enough can you?”

“Never.” He replied.

“Hmm, we’ll see.” She said, mischievously. She slipped from his lap, unpinning his from his belly. She flipped forward through a couple of pages in the book.

“Hey, what about-“

“Yes, your treat!” She said, clapping her hooves excitedly, finding apparently what she was looking for in the pages. She scooted back over to him and straddled his lap, facing him. Once again, his member was trapped between their bodies. He could feel her hot marehood resting against the base and his scrotum. It was driving him crazy.

“So, what’s my-” Before he could even finish, she took hold of his head in her hooves and pulled his horn into her mouth. He wasn’t prepared for that. He felt that air rush from his lungs at the sensation of his sensitive horn enclosed in her heavenly mouth.

Satisfied that she had sufficiently silenced the stallion, she let his horn slip from her mouth, letting him take a breath. Strangely, he hadn’t anything to say as she resumed her ministrations on his magical tool. More slowly this time, she worked her way along the side, licking her way to the base, planting little kisses all around before working her way back to the tip. She licked it like a popsicle, flicking the tip with her tongue. She could feel him buck and jerking underneath her, grinding himself against her body.

“Nggh, come on Cadie, let me put it in!” He begged, grabbing her butt and practically lifting her up against his shaft, sliding her slit higher along his shaft, getting it slick with her lube. She looked into his pleading eyes. He was like a poor lost puppy looking for a place to bury his bone.

“Okay, fine. But NO HUMPING! You got that?” she glared with deadly seriousness. “If you start humping, I’m going to get off.” She told him.

“I thought that was the point.” He snickered.

“You KNOW what I mean. You’d better behave.” She said, trying her best to keep her bearing. In truth she was enjoying this just as much as he was, and it was almost as bad for her to keep putting off the rutting. But she knew that in the long run it would make it all the better. She was deviating a bit from the book by allowing him to penetrate her now, but she wanted it just as bad as him, though she would never admit it.

She placed her hooves on his shoulders for support and lifted her hind end up off of his lap. Little Shiny bobbed free of its confines between their bodies, pulsing with each beat of his heart. She took grasp of it with her magic, aiming it for her hot love tunnel. She lowered herself down slowly; too slowly for his liking. As she made first contact she rubbed it back and forth against her marehood, slicking his head and parting her moist lips. His flared head slipped past her inner lips and he practically lifted his hips off the bed to get into her more quickly.

“Hey! I mean it!” She pushed down on his shoulders a little harder, keeping him firmly planted on the bed. She resumed her descent, perhaps a little less slowly this time. She let more of her weight rest on his cock as it pushed its way past her entrance, burying itself inside her. This squatting position was a bit unnatural for her, but Shining was enjoying the extra tightness her flexed muscles gave her.

She finally bottomed out, kneeling and relaxing with her butt resting on his lap once more. Shining couldn’t be happier as she set back to work on his horn. It was a duet of pleasures. She continued to felate his horn while he was in his favorite place in the world: inside her.

Sure, it was hard for him to keep his promise to not start thrusting. But he was content to just feel the warm embrace of her velvety tunnel around him. It just felt… perfect, feeling him inside her, a perfect fit, a perfect match.

Cadence, for her part didn’t mind the new situation at all. She enjoyed having him inside her just as much as he liked being there. And it was certainly more comfortable than him trying to fuck a hole into her bellybutton like earlier. She could feel his rapid heart through his rod, throbbing inside her. Her mind didn’t wander too far from the task at hoof… or rather at mouth. She could feel that familiar sensation of tingling on her tongue, like licking a battery. She could tell he was getting close.

He started to rock back and forth a bit. It wasn’t thrusting, so she let it slide. But the minute movement was enough for him, especially in addition the stimulation on his horn. Cadence ground back against him, rubbing her clit against his pubic bone. After his hoof work on her earlier, she had been close for some time. She felt her own climax approaching along with his horn’s.

She started moaning onto his horn in her mouth, reaching a fever pitch as she felt herself explode onto him, her marecum rushing past his stallionhood, soaking his crotch. The vibration of her muffle scream was the last straw for the poor boy as ethereal sparks of magic burst from the tip of his horn into her mouth. It had a slight sting to it, like drinking a carbonated soda too fast. She hadn’t stimulated him to the point of cumming in the classic sense of the word, but his horngasm offered him some relief for the time being.

He was still quite hard inside her, but he’d had the wanton energy subsided for the moment. He slumped back against the pillow between him and the headboard. She took the opportunity to remove herself from off his lap. His flared head slipped free with an audible ‘pop’ as the rest of her marecum flowed from her unplugged confines onto him and his bedspread. He made a small whimper feeling the comparatively cold air on his wet phallus.

“Shh, shh. I haven’t finished with you yet.” She cooed, kneeling between his legs. He looked down at her with interest in what she was doing or meant by what she had said. She took his member in her soft hooves and started stroking him gently. If he had lost and rigidity in the brief moment of cool air, he was fully turgid now.

“But this time, you have to do some of the work.” She said, pointed her horn at his face as she hovered over the head of his cock. He needed no further instruction as he leaned forward, and started on her horn. Once she felt him sucking on her horn, she lowered her head the rest of the way, taking the head of his cock in her mouth.

Cadence was the first mare he was ever with. Really, the only mare he was ever with. Except for that one exception, but that’s another story. But the point was, short of what he read about in anatomy class and Playcolt magazine; he’d learned everything he knew about pleasing a mare from her. He had no problem with her pleasuring his horn, but then, when she asked for him to do the same in return, it was a little strange for him.

“I don’t know Cadie,” he whined, looking at her horn she was presenting to him, “it just seems a little weird for me. A little…”

“What? Gay?” She mocked.

“Well, yeah.” He admitted.

“Well I don’t much appreciate the comparison!” Cadence spat. “You’re implying that I have a penis growing out of my forehead. And that simply is not the case!” She said. Shining would not have normally argued this point, but she had literally just given him his first horngasm ever, bursting into her mouth. Of course there was no physical evidence of the event. His horn felt normal again now, and there was no residue normally associated with a males climax. It magic sparks just evaporate into nothing, leaving naught behind but the faint smell of o-zone.

“Come on. I’d think you’d be more receptive to the idea after going through Royal Guard basic training.” She said.

“Exactly!” He said. “Being trapped in a barrack with fifty nine other horny retards was more dicks than I can stand to see for a lifetime!”

“Please? Try something new for me, with me.” She said.

Shining sighed. “Okay, fine. Just… give me a second.” He said, mentally preparing himself. She bowed her head again, presenting her horn to him. He looked at her pink fur. He ran his hoof through her purple and crème colored mane. He smelled her fragrant perfume; everything about her screamed feminine. He tried to focus on that image, everything female about her. It was a horn, her horn, a female’s horn.

He took the tip of it into his mouth, feeling the texture of the spiraled ridges on his tongue. Okay, no big deal. He sucked a little more in. Still okay. He tried to imagine in his mind how he would like to have his pleasured, based on what she had done earlier. He slowly started to bob his head up and down, twirling his tongue around, flicking the tip. He could hear her moaning just below. He must have been doing a good job. He quickened his pace.

His phallic phobia had long since passed. These days he took her horn in his mouth like it was no big deal. The fact that she was sucking him off in his lap was just a bonus. They had done this combination a couple times before. They soon found their rhythm in no time, both of their heads bobbing in synchronized unison. Though in truth, Cadence found herself to be doing the bulk of the work. The simple motion of her sucking him off made enough motion of her head for him to move his only minimally to keep on her horn.

Not that she minded much, or even noticed. While she was going to town on him, and he on her, she only needed one hoof to support herself. Her other, free hoof was busy frigging herself unseen to her partner. She tried her best to convince herself it was for his benefit. It was a bit of a hard sell, but she reasoned it out. Sure she had made several road blocks for him to gain pleasure today, but it was for the sake of pacing out their lovemaking.

And she knew that while he no longer had any problem with pleasuring her horn, it still wasn’t his favorite choice of bedroom repertoire. Any pleasure she gave herself in addition to his work on her horn would only serve to expedite the process. Her process. Of cumming. She would have grinned at the notion, but she had him nearly halfway down her throat at the moment. And besides, she had him nearly halfway down her throat. She could afford a little something for herself on the side.

As she predicted, her efforts halved the time it would normally take him to bring her to horngasm. For an event that takes place exclusively above the neck, a horngasm is still a full body sensual experience. With the aide of her clopping hoof, she felt her horngasm start in her nethers. It was distinctly different from a normal one; though the world lacked the vocabulary to properly describe how.

She felt it as a sort of mild tingle that gradually grew stronger as if moved up away from her marehood through her body. It was as though she had sat on a live wire and somepony was gradually turning up the current. Once it hit the base of her spine, it accelerated up her back to her neck, causing the short hairs to stand on end. By now, Shining was starting to get that nine volt taste. Then, finally at the base of her cranium, the lightning bolt scatters, lighting up every single neuron in her brain at once before recollecting at the base of her horn, whizzing up the spiraled nerves and arcing from the tip in iridescent sparks of magical energy. Shining’s cheeks glowed pink from the light show going on inside his mouth.

Cadence moaned loudly onto his cock. For the second time that day he was grateful that the vocal mare’s cries were muffled by his various extremities, lest the whole neighborhood hear what they were doing. And despite his hot-to-trot attitude about getting back into the rutting as soon as possible, his climax from earlier stayed him from his own orgasm at the same time as her this time around.

Cadence’s head slipped off of him, opting to flop out on the bed. Her horngasm was more intense than she could even try to fake otherwise. She just needed a quick break. She just needed to close her eyes for a second. But Shining would not be denied. He got up to look at this infamous book. He turned the page. He couldn’t read the pre-classical Equestrian language, but the illustrations made it plain what he would be doing next. And then he would get his.